Victorian London
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- Calendars for 1887-1889.
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- Official and unofficial weather reports for London and the Whitechapel area on the nights of the Whitechapel murders, including times of sunrise and sunset, and lunar phases.
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- Article from "The Nineteenth Century" (June 1924) about conditions around Green Street (now the western end of Roman Road).
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- The West End takes a look at the East End (accompanied by a policeman, of course) in this article from "The Metropolitan", 14th September 1872. A look at the nightlife of the East End from a German dancehall to a "penny gaff" in Whitechapel.
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- Article from "The Illustrated London News", 24th October 1863, on housing conditions in the area.
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- Selections from a book by the Rev. Harry Jones of St. George's-in-the-East on his impressions of East London, subtitled "Being notes of common life and pastoral work in Saint James's, Westminster, and in Saint George's-in-the-East". Published in 1875.
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- Article, written circa 1895, about Revd. Daw and his work in the parish of St. Mary, Spital Square.
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- An account of the day-to-day life of that great East End institution: mother. Kingsley Royden remembers the daily routines of his mother (and father) living in Bromley-by-Bow in the 1920's. Published in the "East London Record", no.1 (1978) and republished here with the kind permission of the East London History Society.
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- Life in Mile End at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century as remembered by C.A. Brown (1887-1978). Published in the "East London Record", no.2 (1979) and republished here with the kind permission of the East London History Society.
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- Article from "The Builder", Vol. XXI, no. 1082 (31st October 1863), about the appalling housing conditions in the Old Nichol area of Bethnal Green. The slum was later cleared and the Boundary Street Estate built in its place.
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- A dose of social darwinism from a Bethnal Green vicar interviewed in "The London", 12th March 1896. The Rev. Osborne Jay was vicar of Holy Trinity Church in the Old Nichol, also known as the Jago.
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- Article from the "East London Record", No. 2 (1979), on conditions in the borough in the year of the Matchgirls' Strike and the Jack the Ripper murders. Republished with the kind permission of the East London History Society.
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- Some discussion has arisen on the Casebook regarding the possibility that the Ripper may have used the London Underground for his escape after the murders. This is an essay by Adam Wood concerning the beginnings of the Underground.
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- details the evolution of London's sewer system in the mid 19th century, and the effect it had on the health of the general populace.
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- An 1889 account of Saturday night drunkenness, revelry and violence in the East End. Originally published in the "Eastern Post & City Chronicle", 17th August 1889.
History of London (General)
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- Article from "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. III, no. 33 (November 1933), on the history of the hamlet of Mile End Old Town and Stepney Green.
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- Article from "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. III, no. 32 (October 1933), on the history of Poplar and the Isle of Dogs from Saxon times to the 19th century.
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- Article from "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. II, no. 24 (February 1933), on the history of the parish from its creation in 1729 to the 1930's.
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- Article from "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. I, no. 10 (December 1931), covering the early history of Spitalfields and the Old Artillery Ground up to the 17th century.
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- Article from "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. I, no. 11 (Christmas 1931-January 1932), covering the history of Spitalfields in the 17th and 18th centuries and the arrival of the Huguenots.
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- Article from "The Copartnership Herald, Vol. I, no. 12 (February 1932), giving more details of the 17th and 18th centuries, of silk weaving and the Huguenots.
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- Article from "The Copartnership Herald, Vol. II, no. 13 (March 1932), about the silk weaving industry in Spitalfields in the 18th century.
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- Article from "The Copartnership Herald, Vol. II, no. 14 (April 1932), about the decline of the silk weaving industry in Spitalfields in the late 18th and 19th century.
Photographs
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- A series of photographs displaying various sections of Whitechapel, both in 1888 and today.
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- A collection of photographs of modern Whitechapel, Spitalfields and surrounding areas, taken during May and June of 1999, and July, 2000.
During the Autumn of Terror hundreds of letters were sent to the police and local press purporting to be written by the Whitechapel fiend. Most of them were deemed to be fakes written by either newspaper men trying to start a story or fools trying to incite more terror. Many Ripperologists believe them all to be hoaxes. Other experts believe some (specifically the Dear Boss letter, Saucy Jacky postcard, and From Hell letter) are genuine. A select few have been reproduced below.
